A theory about Michael Jackson's voice

by Lady Lee 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  Lady Lee

  Ok I will start by admitting I went to see "This is it"

  A couple of things struck me. They repeatedly said MJ could still move and the video clips of rehearsals proved it. I disagree with that. A show goes on. It doesn't stop and take a breea. It doesn't stop when something needs to be changed. It doesn't stop for breaks. The clips are woven together to make it look one way but when MJ is in different clothes. It might look like one take but it is a lot of smaller bites sewn togwether. Did MJ have the stamina to do it all in one shot alkthough the various costume changes do provide opportunity for breaks from dancing and singing on stage.

  OK now my theory is about his cosmetic surgeries. MJ was 50 yrs old. Certainly enough other singers are out there doing their 50 yr tours so in that MJ was no different. What struck me in his singing and talkiing was his voice. Soft almost feminine. In fact he sounds more like his sisters than his sister sound like him.

  I grant that he had a skin disorder. I have known people with it and would be shocked if he had it that he would opt for lightening it so that isn't it either.

  The sound. His voice. MJ was at the height of his career twice in his life - as a young boy and as a young man. What if the nasal surgery wasn't to appear more "white" as many people believe but was an attempt to keep his voice young sounding, boyish or even feminine to hit the high notes. Nasal surgery would certainly have an impact on the sound that comes out.

  Any fixation with his voice sounding young might expalin his desire to be around children; to remain "Peter Pan" in Neverland. Pharmaceuticall castration might also provide another reason why he didn't father his own children (other than not wanting to pass down his skin disorder). Hormones would also alter the voice. Has anyone seen a list of all the medications he was taking. If so we could check for the effects and the side effects of them.

  I could be wrong. I probably am wrong but. . .

  What say you?
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  mrsjones5

  I remember an interview of Michael's exwife Lisa Marie Presley where she said that's his real voice was not that high, that he used that voice as part of his persona, and Michael and her had had a conversation about how surprised the public would be to hear how deep his real voice was.
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  DJK

  I have to agree with "persona".

  Michael had a high (and wide) range of notes and I could never equate that to feminism.
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  The Almighty Homer

  Two problems with MJ that may have actually been the cause of his own death was his extreme narcissism , combined with

  all the money in the world to nurious it. Quite frankly I thought his voice just before his death was sounding a bit weird.

  Like the aging process was changing his voice on to another level, it sounded strained and lose, I bet even he knew he was losing it.

  His style of singing didn't accompany well with an aged person as when he died.

  He created himself into a persona of a feminine woman from masculinity of his young adulthood and his big Thriller days.

  Years of drug abuse and psychological problems ended up taking its toll which inevitably lead to his death.

  In many ways Micheal Jackson killed himself with the delusion that he was a king of sorts with all the accompanying glory and importance of one,

  an image that would eventually kill him.
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  Black Sheep

  I have heard that his non-media voice was more like Joe's.

  His fixation with his nose was a result of Joe's teasing him about it, which was pretty unfair, as it wasn't much different from his own.

  I have the same skin disorder, but fortunately I'm white and I don't have it where it is often seen or sunburned. A local Maori had it on about 50% of his face. It's not a great look and I can understand why someone would depigment the rest of their face to match.

  Cheers

  Chris
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  HappyGuy

  I am 52 and I can sing countertenor which is the highest range male voice in opera. My speaking voice is much lower than that. I don't sing like that all the time, only when the music calls for it. Like in Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song or Stairway to Heaven, or trying to sing any of Meatloaf's songs.

  If Jackson was speaking in a high tenor pitch then he was doing it on purpose. Singing voice and speaking voice are not the same thing.
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  moshe

  -Meatloaf's songs.

  Offtrack- but it was 15 years after that song came out that I heard it for the first time in a nightclub- I was slow dancing with a lady at 3am-closing time-last song. I was thinking, where was I all those years as a JW, that I never heard this song? I wonder, if the upcoming documentary show about MJ will mention his JW upbringing.
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  HappyGuy

  moshe,

  Meat Loaf's singing in the play The Rocky Horror Show is what led to the movie the Rockie Horror Picture Show.

  It has been said of ML that he once hit a note so high in a recording session that he blew out the sound board. Not sure if that is true or not.
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  Lady Lee

  I had not heard that info about his normal talking voice being much lower than the one he used in public. I can tell you taht all the clips where he was talking used his "persona" voice. How interesting!

  Makes me think of dissociative disorders. Many singers do go into a trance state when they are singing. I expect the MJ probably did too especially after listening to the comments about him.

  The documentary said nothing about his JW influences
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  avishai

  I remember an interview of Michael's exwife Lisa Marie Presley where she said that's his real voice was not that high, that he used that voice as part of his persona, and Michael and her had had a conversation about how surprised the public would be to hear how deep his real voice was.

  I have heard that his non-media voice was more like Joe's.

  Yep. Came to a hall I went too in LA back in '83, as his own was staked out by reporters constantly. Much deeper.